Lot 65
Roman, Imperial period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. Wow! An amazingly preserved, very pale blue glass translucent jug, free blown, with an applied handle made of repeatedly dripped strands of molten glass and that bends at an acute angle from the center of the neck. The body of the vessel is uniform, with a rounded shoulder and a gently concave base with pontil mark. A narrow, cylindrical neck rises from the center of the piece to a flared, thick lip designed to catch liquid and prevent dripping. With a few areas of pale, milky iridescence, especially on the inside of the shoulder, this jug is preserved in amazing condition for its age and fragility. Also preserved with it is its stopper, which has become completely encrusted with age, and was likely once made of some organic matter. What might it have been? Roman glass bottles have been found with a variety of materials used for stoppers - including an upside down pine cone found in one at the Athenian Agora! Size: 4.9" W x 5.8" H (12.4 cm x 14.7 cm)
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection
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- Condition: Glass is intact with faint pearlescence on surface. Stopper is completely encrusted and frozen in place. Vessel possesses a pontil scar or mark which indicates that the vessel was free-blown. (The absence of such a mark would suggest that the work was either mold-blown or that the mark was intentionally smoothed away or wore away over time.)
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